penAI has made public the cancelation of the release of the o3 model. The expected launch was canceled in favor of what their CEO, Sam Altman is naming
the “simplified” product offering.
In a social media post made by Altman on X, he stated that in the future months, OpenAI is going to release a model which is called GPT-5 saying “In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.
The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!), subject to abuse thresholds.
Plus subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence, and Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an even higher level of intelligence. These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more.”.
As a result of this new plan, OpenAI will no longer plan to launch o3 as a stand-alone model. Even though the company was planning on launching the o3 model in December, only a few weeks back, the chief product officer from OpenAI, Kevin Weil, mentioned in an interview that o3 was programmed for a “February-March” launch.
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“We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings,” wrote Altman in his post “We want AI to ‘just work’ for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker [in ChatGPT] as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence.”.
Altman also talked about OpenAI plans to offer unlimited access to ChatGPT-5 for standard intelligence settings once the model is available generally. Even more so, it also seems like OpenAI is embracing the reasoning model trend as it launched the first reasoning model, o1, last year, reported TechCrunch.
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Adam Brown
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February 13, 2025 12:10 PM
